Show M by arthur brisbane THE WAY OF A SHIP MARK TWAIN WOULD WONDER DOG AND PERFUME LADIES AND ONLY ONE STAR the way of a ship in the midst of the sea has changed since solomon the son of david wrote his proverbs the hardy phoenician bringing precious freight for solomons temple and the american a tourist of the general grant mark alark twain period would wonder at the ships of 1927 this is written on the aquitania one of many floating cities that cross the ocean as free from romance as the moving pictures shown on deck A whoever has crossed in old days rubs his eyes like rip van winkle along the deck much wider than fifth avenues sidewalk and almost as steady comes a wheezy short fat lady leading a small d dog to match with all its owners qualities plus a disposition to snap at passing legs the they turn at the notice no dogs dag allowed forward of this is ai sign agn the do dog g wears ars a beautiful rib bon the lady ad possibly 0 1 s bly a grandmother wears wear gri brilliant 1 biant pink silk stockings of tuch such high visibility that an old time captain might have put t her in irons much gold on her dress and on an her cheeks profusely 0 fuseley spread the rouge that jr bel wore in racines description on pour faur r lift des ani am cirr pa parable bl that modern seafaring teai aring lady passes and here comes another passes forty orly years younger forty times time 1 worse As she passes in in bright i rc red 1 she sc scatters a tiers all the perfumes of arabia which are the worst stickiest perfumes on earth and smokes an ostentatious cigarette 1 the te cigarette is used as a wand I 1 waved to emphasize a speech that she is is making deeply appreciated by a young man with black sleek mere fsr aa dan i Rus russian wolf hound bound the young womans comans father probably has money hundreds spend a W 14 la im this floating hotel not realizing that thai they are op oft the ocean mean until aff the fog horn blows then age some say 1 F I dont like that sound tte tb more nervous drown the tog fog born with two more cocktails modern modem american wealth hat ha changed ships into cocktail ana breakfast food emporiums there ther are thirty kinds of raucous mucous membrane destroyers listed as code cock tails on the smoking root room pro gramme and indigent indignant Britis hers on their own skip ship wade ae through a list of american breakfast foods that amazes and outrages them in old days after dark sentimental young people stood whispering behind the wheel house the older more serious looked at the sky muttering about arcturus orion and pleiades and th tha a chambers of the south that is old stuff now there thera is no wheel house accessible on a modern ship and you are not supposed to loc look at the stars the only one of six six decks from which they can be seen is dark at night nobody uses it to walk there is to interrupt your our musings by falling over shu shuffle fly le boards or imitation greens for golfers on modern ships one star is enough the one to be seen tonight is wondrously beautiful deep and soulful her her picture I 1 ture in in colors just juat outside je the dining saloon shows her pretty tiny nose pressed close to the nose tip of some som gentleman the of dign says say pole pol negri in goad arid and raligh naughty in the smoking room pools ire are auctioned on the ships dally daily run the th pools pool running to thousands of 01 dollars the chief smoking room steward generously remembered by the winner of each pool gets twice as much as a the ships captain that also is modern many a bootlegger gets four times at ai much as the president of the united states on this voyage mr and mr lehman display strange knowledge as to how fast a ship will go martin conboy york looks boks on and tays says ft its too complicated and not worth the bother anyhow news comes come through the ether from both shores chores and unlike the brother of old jerome of travers arid and jerome jerom you ou dont wait ten tn 12 |